CONCERT

1:30 P.M. | SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 2016 | SAMS CHAPEL

Homecoming

F E ATUR I NG

T H E K A N S A S W E S L E Y A N U N I V E R S I T Y

Wesleyan ChoraleString Orchestra

Philharmonic ChoirPhilharmonic Orchestra & Rebecca Copley

FEATURED SOLOIST KNOXVILLE: SUMMER

OF 1915, OP. 24

WHAT’S COMING UP IN KWU FINE ARTSSEPTEMBER

Homecoming Church Service — Choir performance Sunday, September 25 | University United Methodist Church | 10:30 a.m.

Student Recital Wednesday, September 28 | Sams Chapel | 4 p.m.

OCTOBER The Gallery Exhibit: Barbara Waterman Peters and Larry Peters October 3–November 3 | Reception—Thursday, October 13, 5–7 p.m.

Student Recital Wednesday, October 12 | Sams Chapel | 4 p.m.

Fall Play — “I Hate Hamlet” by Paul Rudnick October 13–16 | Fitzpatrick Auditorium, Sams Hall of Fine Arts | Thursday–Saturday 7:30 p.m. | 2 p.m. Sunday

Radio Drama Monday, October 31 | Ad Astra Books & Coffee House | 7 p.m.

NOVEMBER Student Recital Wednesday, November 2 | Sams Chapel | 4 p.m.

The Gallery Exhibit: Grace Peterson November 7–December 14 | Reception — Friday, December 2, 5–7 p.m

Student Recital Wednesday, November 9 | Sams Chapel | 4 p.m.

Band/Orchestra Fall Concert Tuesday, November 15 | Sams Chapel | 7:30 p.m.

Jazz Band/Percussion Ensemble Fall Concert Monday, November 21 | Sams Chapel | 7:30 p.m.

Student Recital Wednesday, November 30 | Sams Chapel | 4 p.m.

DECEMBER Piano Recital Tuesday, December 6 | University United Methodist Church | 6 p.m.

Dancing/Acting Recital Thursday, December 8 | Fitzpatrick Auditorium | 7:30 p.m.

Vocal Recital Friday, December 9 | University United Methodist Church | 7:30 p.m.

Christmas by Candlelight Sunday, December 11, 2016 | Sams Chapel | 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Stay up to date with all of our events at kwu.edu/finearts

*Please join us in supporting the Marching Coyotes as they perform at halftime of the 6 p.m. Homecoming football game at the Graves Family Sports Complex.

PROGRAM

WESLEYAN CHORALEFare Thee Well Love ..........................Jimmy Rankin, arr. James Quitman Mulholland

Jaicee Wilson, tenorEnjoy the Silence ................................................................Martin Gore, arr. Eric WhitacreConnected .....................................................................................................................Brian Tate

STRING ORCHESTRAHolberg Suite, Op. 40 ........................................................................................ Edvard Grieg

Praeludium St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 ..........................................................................Gustav Holst

Finale: The Dargason

MUSICAL THEATERThe Next Ten Minutes ................................................................... from The Last Five Years

Sadie Smith and Jaicee Wilson

Agony ......................................................................................................... from Into the WoodsChristian McQueen and Jaicee Wilson

This World Will Remember Me .................................................. from Bonnie and ClydeAaron J. Dix

PHILHARMONIC CHOIRShout Glory! .........................................................................................................Byron J. Smith

Morgan Parker, drumsDalton Brummer, bass

Sleep .......................................................................................................................... Eric WhitacreShenandoah ....................................................................................................arr. Ryan Nowlin

Valerie Goertz, celloAfrica ..........................................................David Paich/Jeff Porcano, arr. Roger Emerson

Morgan Parker, drumsDalton Brummer, bassMelissa Larson, keyboard

PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAKnoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 ......................................................... Samuel Barber

Rebecca Copley, soprano

Students at KWU are encouraged to take part in all facets of the music program, with the opportunity to perform in

vocal and instrumental ensembles. They may participate in large scale musicals, operas and concerts through partnerships with theatre companies and a regional symphony.

MAJOR OPTIONSMusic GeneralMusic Education (PreK–12)Music PerformanceMusic TheatreMinor Option

ENSEMBLE OPPORTUNITIESCoyote Marching BandJazz BandPercussion EnsemblePep BandPhilharmonic ChoirPhilharmonic OrchestraString OrchestraWesleyan Chorale Wind Ensemble

Private voice and instrument lessons are also offered to our students. Because of these unique small-school advantages, graduates from KWU enter the community as well-rounded citizens and musicians, possessing the skills needed to be successful in their careers.

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KEN HAKODA Chair of the Department of Music hakoda@kwu.edu

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Holberg Suite, Op. 40 ..........................................................................Edvard GriegPraeludiumThe Holberg Suite, more properly “From Holberg’s Time,” subtitled “Suite in olden style” is a suite of five movements based on eighteenth century dance forms, written by Edvard Grieg in 1884 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Danish-Norwegian humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg. It exemplifies nineteenth century music which makes use of musical styles and forms from the preceding century. Today’s performance will showcase the first movement only.

St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 ............................................................ Gustav Holst Finale: The Dargason

The St. Paul’s Suite, originally titled Suite in C, is a composition for string orchestra by the English composer Gustav Holst. It was written in 1912, but due to revisions was not published until 1922. It is named after the St. Paul’s Girls’ School in the United Kingdom, where Holst was Director of Music from 1905 to 1934. It was written in gratitude to the school which had built a soundproof studio for him. This suite is the most famous of the many pieces he wrote for students at St. Paul’s. The finale was arranged from the “Fantasia on the Dargason” which is found in the Holst Second Suite in F for Military Band.

Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 ...........................................Samuel BarberKnoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, is a 1947 work for voice and orchestra by Samuel Barber, with text from a 1938 short prose piece by James Agee. The work was commissioned by soprano Eleanor Steber, who premiered it in 1948 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky. Although the piece is traditionally sung by a soprano, it may also be sung by tenor. The text is in the persona of a male child.

James Agee’s prologue to the piece reads: “We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.”

PROGRAM NOTES

Below is the entire libretto used for today’s performance:It has become the time of evening when people sit on their porches, rocking gently and talking gently and watching the streetand the standing up into their sphere of possession of the trees,of birds’ hung havens, hangers.People go by; things go by.A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt;a loud auto; a quiet auto; people in pairs, not in a hurry,scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually, the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard and starched milk, the image upon them of lovers and horsemen, squared with clowns in hueless amber.

A streetcar raising its iron moan:stopping, belling and starting; stertorous; rousing and raising again its iron increasing moan and swimming its gold windows and straw seats on past and past and past,

the bleak spark crackling and cursing above it like a small malignant spirit set to dog its tracks;the iron whine rises on rising speed; still risen, faints; halts; the faint stinging bell; rises again, still fainter, fainter, lifting, lifts, faints forgone: forgotten.

Now is the night one blue dew.Now is the night one blue dew, my father has drained, now he has coiled the hose.Low on the length of lawns, a frailing of fire who breathes …Parents on porches: rock and rock. From damp strings morning glories hang their ancient faces.The dry and exalted noise of the locusts from all the air at once enchants my eardrums.

On the rough wet grass of the backyard my father and mother have spread quilts. We all lie there, my mother, my father, my uncle, my aunt, and I too am lying there … They are not talking much, and the talk is quiet, of nothing in particular, of nothing at all in particular, of nothing at all.The stars are wide and alive, they seem each like a smile of great sweetness, and they seem very near.

All my people are larger bodies than mine, ... with voices gentle and meaningless like the voice of sleeping birds.One is an artist, he is living at home.One is a musician, she is living at home.One is my mother who is good to me.One is my father who is good to me.By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass, in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

After a little I am taken in and put to be. Sleep, soft smiling, draws me unto her: and those receive me, who quietly treat me, as one familiar and well-beloved in that home:but will not, no ,will not, not now, not ever; but will not ever tell me who I am.

Flute/PiccoloJulia LankhorstHope ReinertStefany Wilson

Oboe/English HornLindsay ModinTina Butts

ClarinetWendy Stein*Kayla Hockett

BassoonSarah Bernard-Stevens*Anne Knipe

TrumpetLucas Johnson*Ruben Arredondo

Horn/SaxophoneMiranda UrbanAnna Taylor

TriangleMorgan Parker

Violin ICaroline BeckmanKayla St. LaurentAlicia MoraCurtis WedelChloe MarshallAnn Samuelson*

Violin IIAbigail MarshallEmily GardnerMayela CampaDenise Blehm*Britany Carver

ViolaTaylor McClainKaitlynn HazellDoug Beyer*

CelloThomas ForresterValerie GoertzBrandon RectenwaldLaura NivensCaleb Marshall

BassDalton BrummerAndrew HewittJohn Davis*

HarpJane Hyde

KEN HAKODA | Associate Professor of Music, Chair of the Department of Music Hakoda hails from a unique musical background, having received extensive training in choral and instrumental education as well as theory/composition. He has won a number of awards and honors as composer of band, choral and orchestral music. In addition to his work at Kansas Wesleyan University where he teaches choir, music education and music theory classes, Hakoda serves as music director and conductor of the Salina Symphony. He also directs choir at St. John’s Lutheran Church and regularly serves as music director at the Salina Community Theatre.

SopranoBrianna Anderson – Colorado Springs, COChelsea Bearrick – Chanute Madison Butler – Liberal Tina Butts* – Junction CityAubrey Dorzweiler* – EllsworthHaley Enyart* – LindsborgEmily Gardner – Topeka Kayla Hockett – Plainville Alexis Koops – Downs Sarah Medlock – AbileneAlicia Mora – Hutchinson Morgan Parker – Salina Shannon Richter – Abilene Breyana Rose* – Junction CitySadie Smith* – Salina Autumn Zimmerman* – Concordia

BassRuben Arredondo – Medicine LodgeDalton Brummer – HutchinsonJacob Buckman* – LyonsNoah Corn* – Salina Aaron Dix* – SalinaKenneth Dixon* – Salina Devin Griffee – Marysville Wyatt Hofstra* – OskaloosaBradley Lepping – Salina Jose Moreno* – EllsworthAlbert Penado – Salina Preston Vetter – Wichita Jordan Waymaster* – Ellsworth

AltoMorgan Beougher – Stockton Brianna Brooks – OskaloosaBrookelyn Brown – Arkansas CityValerie Goertz – Hutchinson Stephanie Gomez* – Lyons Amanda Gravholt* – Yankton, SDKaitlynn Hazell – Hutchinson Samantha Highsmith* – SalinaAnne Knipe – Junction CityMelissa Larson – SalinaBethany Manny– Hutchinson Abigail Marshall – Salina Claire Massey – Henryetta, OKTaylor McClain – Junction CityBrittney Menges – Colby Laura Nivens – Junction CityBriana Pitts – Fort Worth, TexasAngelica Reinert* – Salina Margo Samuelson – MarysvilleKayla St. Laurent* - HutchinsonAnna Taylor* – Valley Center

TenorMarco Armendariz* – SalinaMason Bosworth* – Alma Thomas Forrester* – Salina Marlon Hernandez-Soriano* – Salina Christian McQueen* – Los Angeles, CAJacob Studebaker – El DoradoCurtis Wedel* – Garden CityJaicee Wilson* – Salina

* KWU Faculty/Adjunct

DR. JESSE HENKENSIEFKEN | Assistant Professor of Music / Director of Strings

Henkensiefken relocated to Kansas from New York City, where he served as Music Director for the Ars Viva Chamber Orchestra. A native of Kansas, he has taught at Emporia State University, Park University, and the University of Kansas, where he received his Doctorate of Musical Arts. He is also the assistant conductor and principal cellist of the Salina Symphony.

* Wesleyan Chorale Member

STRING ORCHESTRA & PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Dr. Jesse Henkensiefken, conductor

REBECCA COPLEY Rebecca Copley’s critically acclaimed professional debut was as Desdemona opposite James McCracken in Verdi’s Otello with the New Jersey State Opera. “Desdemona’s prayer was exquisite” (English Opera). Soon after, she debuted in Verdi’s Requiem with the Paris Opera, at New York City Opera as Puccini’s Turandot, Carnegie Hall with New Jersey Symphony as Wagner’s Isolde, and the Metropolitan Opera as Amelia in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. Singing the most demanding repertoire for soprano, “Rebecca Copley was in spectacular voice as Aida” (Opera News), she has triumphed in opera and symphonic works throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and South Africa, working with renowned conductors as James Levine, Valery Gergiev, Hugh Wolff, Robert Shaw, Philippe Entremont, Theo Alcantara, and Lawrence Leighton Smith.

Copley’s debut in Bilbao, Spain, was to perform and record the title role in Jesus Guridi’s Basque opera, Amaya, sung in Basque. Amaya was released in Spain as a private limited premiere edition recording, followed by the international Marco Polo release in October 2000.

In 2004, the Kansas Federation of Music Clubs honored Copley as “Musician of the Year.” She is the recipient of the Gold Award for Achievement from her alma mater, Bethany College. Copley currently serves as director of vocal studies at Kansas Wesleyan University. She is in demand as a voice teacher/clinician, most recently as Visiting Artist/Professor in Voice at University of Oklahoma, Fort Lewis College (Colo.), and Bethany College, and welcomes dedicated students to her private studio. Rebecca and her husband, Don Johnson, are happy to be at home again at their farm north of Lindsborg.

PHILHARMONIC CHOIR | Ken Hakoda, director | Judy Weber, accompanist